Wild Bison Are Returning to England’s Forests For First Time in 6,000 Years
A relative of the iconic beast that roams the American Great Plains is going to be released in an ancient forest in Kent, England—where they haven’t resided for 6,000 [...]
Tag: Animals
Cher Sheds Tears of Joy as Pakistan’s ‘Loneliest Elephant’ Wins Bid For Freedom
An elephant at the Murghazar Zoo in Islamabad, is set to be freed thanks to a May 21 ruling by the Pakistan High Court.
Pop icon Cher, who advocated for four years on his behalf, [...]
White Storks Have Hatched The First Wild Chicks Born in England in 600 Years
The babies brought by these storks weren’t delivered in blankets.
The White Stork Project was delighted to announce last week that wild storks in West Sussex have hatched their [...]
Harpoons Are Silenced: Iceland’s Whaling Boats Spend Second-Straight Season Tied Up in Port
For the second straight year, there will be no whale hunting season in Iceland, and conservation groups are celebrating.
After the international moratorium against whaling began [...]
100 Year-old Bachelorette Tortoise May Be the Last of Her Species – But She Has New Hope for a Boyfriend
Last year, in the recently expanded Galapagos Islands National Park, scientists made a “monumental” discovery when they found a solitary female tortoise on one of the islands [...]
Brazilians Get Juicy Tax Breaks When They Adopt Animals, Plant Trees, or Hail Historic Roots
A slew of Brazilian cities are passing laws that offer tax deductions or exemptions for citizens who want to pitch in to restore the health and beauty of their [...]
Australian Soldiers Are Using Their Time Off to Care for Koalas Displaced by the Fires
As rainfall continues to extinguish the bushfires still burning across Australia, this brigade of soldiers has been doing their part to help recovering wildlife by using their [...]
As Fur is Phased Out of Fashion, More Than 200 Donated Fur Coats Are Handed Out to Afghanis in Need
Photo by Life for Relief and Development
As the fashion industry continues to phase out the use of animal fur, more and more people are cleansing their closets of all their [...]
5 Years After Turning Disused Military Bases into Nature Reserves, Wolves Return and Use Bases as Havens
In a remarkable legislative move that increased the amount of protected areas for wildlife in Germany by 25%, the German government moved in 2015 to convert 62 disused Cold [...]
Couple Protects Endangered Lemurs in Madagascar By Launching Mobile Library to Teach Indigenous People to Read
When a young couple went on their 2014 honeymoon in Madagascar—one of the most cherished environments in the world—the heartbreaking problems of indigenous people, forests, [...]